Yes, two posts in a row about Iron Man 2 posters. What, would you rather NOT know? Tyler Stout will be selling copies of his posters tonight. As written below, the regular is a 24″ x 36″ screenprint, has an edition of 515, and will be “around” $48. The variant is has an edition of 130 and will be “around” $83. They go up tonight (Wednesday, May 5th) “sometime after” 8pm PST. Make sure you have an account set up in advance and visit Tyler’s Etsy Shop.

I don’t mean to be overly pedantic, but does “PST” mean I also have to adjust for daylights savings? Specifically, how should I interpret 8pm PST to Central time? Is that 10pm tonight or later? Maybe I should just take a few deep breaths and relax, but since I missed the drop this morning at Mondo I’d like to not miss this one too…

I grabbed copies this morning on Mondo, but for fun i hopped on Etsy and it seems like its holding together pretty well so far. Granted I havnt tried to check out with anything. Hope everyone out there grabbed one!

I was torn between the regular and variant. Indeed, the red in the regular is so appropriate. However, I was kind of smitten with the idea of the “arc reactor” in his chest possibly being GID, so I caved…

Well i tried to checkout once with a variant and it gave me the ” not enough quantity to checkout ” line, literally seconds after it went up. So then i tried for a regular and I got he Fing “cannot ship to hhe United States” thing too, WtF…

I live in the States and had no issues snagging one, but I just happened to snag one right after they appeared on Etsy. I did snag a variant though and it is sounding like only the regular edition had issues *shrug*

Well it sounds like some of you guys might have beaten me to it by a few minutes (I got on around 11:06 EST), but I thought I had one until that damn shipping error. If it had just crashed I wouldn’t have been surprised, but that was weird and frustrating.

I just went through and didnt get the shipping error, I bought one of each copy this morning so Im not going to buy another, but try again folks, I didnt get the shipping error, and got to the commit to buy page.

What a huge bummer. I got on here to grab it and it was in my cart, errored when i clicked commit to buy then i tried to do it again and I get this shipping error. Looks like I’m stuck paying high premiums on ebay like the rest of them

i added the variant, saw 18 left, by the time i committed to buy it was oos.
red one comes up and site was on its rag. managed to review my order when noticed i got 5 in my cart. gave up at that point. pissed off to no ends

FAIL. EPIC FAIL. I’ve loved Tyler’s artwork and unique style for a looooong time now, yet he should have known better in using Etsy. After learning that he was planning to sell his Iron Man 2 via Etsy, I thought WTF???? Etsy is fine for everyday, non-limited items, however using it for a *time-limited* sale is a RECIPE FOR DISASTER. And that’s exactly what happened.

In my case, when the variant was added to the cart, there were 18 in stock. After I finished checkout (pre-Paypal), there were 0 – meaning no variant for Me, Myself and Moi. For some odd reason, Etsy makes you confirm the order, not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES. In that critical amount of time, I lost out on purchasing the variant.

Etsy’s major flaw is that it doesn’t hold time-limited items in the shopping cart. That is, unless you were able to checkout in less than 1 minute, you most likely missed snagging the variant after it was posted for sale.

Why not just state what date the poster will go on sale then email the mailing list when it does (it’s not that hard). Tyler. . . your the man and all but I think you like crashing servers being as though you always give the exact times when your posters go on sale.

This is unreal. ive tried and tried and nothing will go through. I have successfully gotten every error but not a single poster. with 7 left looks like im screwed because i did exactly what i was supposed to do. wow

Even with my experience trying for Shep Fairey and Banksy prints, I must agree with lee. The crash was to be expected, and I’ve seen much worse, but thinking I was so close only to be denied for something like a shipping error, when the item description itself says shipping tot he US is $8, was rather cruel.

mitch, when you sell some here take this list / thread into consideration mate… we deserve to be first in line… c’mon… posting here at the same time that we are trying to purchase on etsy… (that’s probably why I didn’t get any).

I can’t believe it. Got one of the normal posters in my cart when there were over a hundred left and had a combination of all the errors above. First the server crashed, then it wouldn’t let me ship to the states then it said they were all gone. So gutted – I don’t know what else I could have done to get one.

Tyler, do the right thing and do a re issue, please. I don’t care if its labeled a second pressing, I just love your art man.

I like how I’m on his mailing list and I didn’t receive the f-ing email they were going on sale yesterday. Thanks a bunch! I hope all the marvel fanboys didn’t leave a single print for the real collectors *sarcasm*

I was up at 4am, live in the UK and had the exact same problems as all of you. Straight in as soon as it was listed, commit to buy, a stitch has gone awry. From the 20 or so times I went through checkout in that hour, I got can’t ship to UK, looks like it’s sold out with 148 left and gateway error.

I think I would of preferred it to have just sold out quickly than what happened. Just made it more infuriating when you realise the website has messed up somewhere and is stopping you complete your transaction.

Maybe eBay should be the place for artists to sell their work, would that server work better maybe?

Wow, you people are fucking exhausting sometimes. Do you realize how many people are trying to buy his posters? He’s experimenting to find a way that will work, I’m sure he’ll find one eventually. Trust me, as someone that has dealt with the same thing, it is almost impossible to find a reasonably priced way to sell something to 1000+ people at once. He’ll figure it out, give him a break. Jeez.

wow. if you thought that this was going to be an easy sale you were kidding yourself. that image has been all over the nerd blogs all week, poster nerds wanted it, comic nerds wanted it, movie nerds wanted it. hell, it was even up on aint it cool, and if i remember last time aicn posted a mondo poster, the wolfman ones, that sale was also a cluster fuck.
tyler’s work just gets more popular with every release, if he did a reprint of this the same people asking for it would be the same people bitching that he is reprinting a poster just to make money, you do it to tim doyle everytime he reprints something.
just wait a bit, the ebay prices will go down, for all his recent releases they seem to.

It’s not Tyler’s fault. I was mainly criticising the etsy site tbh. It just baffled me with all the errors it gave out which weren’t true. Fair play to tyler for trying a way to make it fair for everyone to have a shot.

Let’s do a little math;
Mr. Stout wants to sell his posters.
He only has about 500 available.
Several thousand babies would each like one.
How many posters does each baby get?

Yeah yeah I know, Etsy betrayed you somehow. Here’s an idea. Email Etsy support and explain your experience in a calm and rational way and wait for a response. While you’re waiting for said response brew yourself a nice cup of chai, sit someplace comfy, wipe the tears from your eyes and GET. FUCKING. OVER IT.

Tyler: amazing print (as usual), shame the movie kinda sucks. Now for christ’s sake please get back in your Delorean and make a proper 24×36 Last Starfighter poster. Don’t matter if anyone’s screening the movie this year just do it for fun dude! Those Grig prints are such a tease! 😉

There are options, but it’s more about actually finding them. From what I can tell, getting a custom-built shopping cart site with cloud-based hosting is probably the way to go. Not cheap or easy though.

Honestly I don’t see why Tyler would want to go through the effort (financially and administratively) to create a fool proof reliable commerce capable website for the handful of high profile drops a year he has to deal with.
Dude’s an artist, not an “e-businessman”.
You dorks are gonna bitch no matter what the guy does because you somehow think you “deserve” a copy of any limited edition print you F5 for all day.

I love you fools but honestly Tyler ain’t havin problems selling out of his work and 500+ people have Iron Man 2 prints in the mail. I don’t see the issue and as nice a dude as Tyler is I’d be surprised if he does either

he showed me the copy he had of the iron man poster and it is so AWESOME up close..oh and if u guys havent figured it out yet, tyler “hides” images in his posters. for example: he has a daughter named clover(my cousin) so he hides a clover somewhere in almost all his posters. pretty kool huh?:)